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A masterclass in evolutionary coaching handout

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A MASTERCLASS IN EVOLUTIONARY COACHING
A Values-based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential

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Richard Barrett’s Books
Update and new research
1998
2013
2006
2010
Learning Modules:
Leading Self
Leading a Team
Leading an Organisation
Leading in Society
2011
2012
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Evolutionary Coaching
Questions I want to address in this workshop:
1. What is Evolutionary Coaching?
2. How is Evolutionary Coaching different from
normal coaching?
3. What resources and tools can I call on to learn
about, and practice, evolutionary coaching?
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Performance vs. Evolutionary Coaching
Performance coaching is about helping people meet the
goals they have at the level of psychological
development they have reached. This is performance
with a little “p”.
Evolutionary coaching is also about performance; but
performance with a big “P”.
Performance with a big “P” is about human emergence;
not just helping people become more proficient at what
they do, but becoming more proficient at life—actively
participating in evolution.
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Evolutionary Coaching
“This is a book for coaches: but it is
not a book about the skills and
techniques of coaching. It is a book
about the framework of human
development that coaches need to be
familiar with in order to facilitate the
full emergence of their client’s
potential.”
Evolutionary
Coaching
A values-based
approach to
unleashing human
potential
2014
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Consciousness
Consciousness is awareness with a purpose and
the purpose is always to establish and maintain
internal stability and external equilibrium at the
stage of psychological development you have
reached and the stages of psychological
development you have passed through—satisfy
your needs.
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Evolutionary Coaching
No matter what type of coach you are, it is
important to recognize that every individual you
are working with is on evolutionary journey—a
natural journey of psychological development
that is common to every member of the human
race.
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Evolutionary Coaching
Evolutionary coaching helps people understand
what stage they have reached in their developmental journey, what stages remain, and what
stages they have passed through.
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Stages of Psychological Development
Every goal your clients are trying to achieve,
every challenge they are facing, and every
choice they have to make is in some way
influenced by or related to the needs of the
stage of psychological development they have
reached or the stages of psychological
development they have already passed through
but have not yet mastered.
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Stages of Psychological Development
Serving: Fulfilling your destiny by caring for the
well-being of humanity and/or the planet.
Self-actualizing: Becoming more fully who you are by leading
a values- and purpose-driven life.
Individuating: Letting go of the aspects of your parental
and cultural conditioning that no longer serve you.
Differentiating: Distinguishing yourself from the crowd
by honing your skills and talents.
Conforming: Keeping safe and secure by staying loyal
to your family, kin and culture.
Surviving: Staying alive and healthy in the best
possible conditions.
Evolution of Personal Consciousness
Integrating: Aligning with others who share the same
values and purpose to create a better world.
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Basic Needs and Growth Needs
Serving: Fulfilling your destiny by caring for
the well-being of humanity and/or the planet.
Self-actualizing: Becoming more fully who you are by
leading a values- and purpose-driven life.
Individuating: Letting go of the aspects of your parental
and cultural conditioning that no longer serve you.
Differentiating: Distinguishing yourself from the
crowd by honing your skills and talents.
Basic
Needs
Conforming: Keeping safe and secure by staying
loyal to your family, kin and culture.
Surviving: Staying alive and healthy in the best
possible conditions.
Evolution of Personal Consciousness
Growth
Needs
Integrating: Aligning with others who share the
same values and purpose to create a better world.
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Values, Needs and Motivations
If you know what your values are then you know
what stage of psychological development you
are operating from and what stages you have
passed through where you still have unmet
needs.
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Values, Beliefs and Behaviours
This exercise takes about 15 minutes
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Choose 3 values that are important to you and
enter them in the left hand column of the worksheet
EXAMPLE: Clarity
2.
Write down your beliefs
that support this value in middle column
EXAMPLE: Clarity bring focus to decision making
3.
Write down the behaviours
you exhibit that support this value
EXAMPLE: Seek many opinions, synthesize
multiple data points to understand the big picture
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A Map of the Territory
If you are taking people to a place they have
never been before, you need the best map of
the territory you can find: it also helps if you
have explored the territory yourself.
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Where are You on this Journey?
Understanding where you are (the coach) on
this journey is just as important as understanding where your clients are. If you know
where you are, then you will know how far you
can take your clients before you enter unknown
territory.
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What motivates us is the satisfaction of our needs
AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IN TIME,
the values that are most
important to you are a reflection
of the stage of psychological
development you have reached
and your unmet basic needs.
Our needs (what we value) have
always been, and always will be
the principal drivers of our
behaviors and actions.
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SPD/LC
Overview
of task
Serving/
Service
Integrating/
Making a difference
Self-actualizing/
Internal cohesion
Individuating/
Transformation
Differentiating/
Self-esteem
Conforming/
Relationship
Surviving/
Need
Values
requirements
Fulfilling your destiny by
caring for the well-being of
humanity and/or the planet.
Satisfying your need to lead a life
of selfless service for the wellbeing of the disadvantaged and
the Earth’s life support systems.
Social responsibility, social justice, future
generations, compassion, humility,
forgiveness, wisdom, long-term
perspective, ecology.
Aligning with others who
share the same values and
purpose to create a better
world.
Satisfying your need to make a
difference in the world by
actualizing your purpose.
Collaboration, alliances and partnerships,
environmental awareness, personal
fulfillment, empathy.
Becoming more fully who you
are by leading a values- and
purpose-driven life.
Satisfying your need to find
meaning through activities or
work you are passionate about.
Trust, fairness, honesty, integrity,
openness, transparency, enthusiasm,
commitment, authenticity.
Letting go of the aspects of
your conditioning that no
longer serve you.
Satisfying your need for freedom,
and independence by becoming
accountable for your life.
Independence, adaptability, continuous
learning, personal growth, balance,
adventure, courage.
Distinguishing yourself from
the crowd by honing your
skills and talents.
Satisfying your need for
recognition and acknowledgement for your skills and talents.
Pride, productivity, efficiency, quality,
professional growth, confidence,
excellence.
Keeping safe and secure by
staying loyal to your family,
kin and culture.
Satisfying your need for love,
respect and belonging at home
and work.
Open communication, friendship, loyalty,
caring, recognition, tradition, rituals.
Staying alive and healthy in
the best conditions possible.
Satisfying your physiological and
nutritional needs.
Financial stability, wealth, employment
opportunities, health and safety.
Survival
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Parental Programming and Cultural Conditioning
We come into life with our own unique preferences,
qualities and talents.
By the time we become young adults, who we are is a
complex mixture of our unique self overlaid by layers of
parental programming and cultural conditioning.
What happens to most of us is our unique self—the
person we were born to become—gets pushed into the
background.
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Parental Programming and Cultural Conditioning
By the time we reach physical maturity we are the
prisoners of our parental programming and cultural
conditioning.
The persona we display to the world is not our unique
self, but our false self: a self with a socialized mind.
If the gap between our persona and our unique self is
wide, we will feel uncomfortable—a sense of unease
about who we are and what we are supposed to do. We
may even feel lost and get depressed.
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Cultural Context
Every person you have as a client is embedded in
multiple cultural contexts: a family context, an
organisational context, a community context, a
societal context and perhaps a religious context.
The level of psychological development of the
cultures your client are embedded in will either
support or hinder their psychological development.
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Evolutionary Coaching
Your job as an evolutionary coach is to help your
clients break down the bars of the prisons they
have constructed for themselves (parental
programming and cultural conditioning) so they
can unmask their false selves, discover their true
selves and grow and develop the inborn gifts
and talents of their unique selves. This is how
you help your clients reach full human
emergence.
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Evolutionary Coaching
Evolutionary coaching is about helping people
find out who they really are and become all they
can become—helping them to individuate and
fully self-actualize—so they can be truly
independent.
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Three Stages of Mind Development
In Immunity to Change Robert Kegan and Lisa
Laskow Lahey identify three plateaus of adult
psychological development (ability to handle
complexity)—the socialized mind, the selfauthoring mind and self-transforming mind.
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, Immunity to Change
(Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing), 2009, pp.16-21.
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Three Stages of Mind Development
THE SELF-TRANSFORMING MIND is focused on leading
a values and purpose-driven life. People operating with a
self-transforming mind see their work as a mission. They
want to leave a legacy and be of service to the world.
THE SELF-AUTHORING MIND is focused on achievement
and ambition. People operating with a self-authoring mind
seek opportunities for advancement. They think of their
work as career—a pathway to a better future.
THE SOCIALISED MIND is focused on meeting its
survival, relationship and self-esteem needs. People
operating with a socialised mind think of their work as a
job—a way of earning a living. They may enjoy their work
and colleagues, but are not passionate about what they do.
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Complexity of Thinking
THE SELF-TRANSFORMING (Interdependent) MIND
This mind is not a prisoner to its filter. It can stand back and
look at it, not just through it. Open to considering different
perspectives and modifying its thinking and direction.
THE SELF-AUTHORING (Independent) MIND
Communication is strongly influenced by what others need
to hear to further its agenda. It places a priority on receiving
information that supports its mission. Prisoner to its filter.
THE SOCIALISED (Dependent) MIND
Communication is strongly influenced by what others need
to hear so it can fit into its social context. Filters what it
hears so that it can maintain alignment with others. Limited
ability for independent thinking.
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Motivating the Socialized Mind
SELF-ESTEEM:
Opportunities to learn and grow professionally
with feedback and coaching from people you
respect.
RELATIONSHIP:
Opportunities to live/work in a congenial
atmosphere where people respect and care about
each other..
SURVIVAL:
Opportunities to earn income and/or receive
benefits that are sufficient to take care of your
needs.
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Motivating the Self-Authoring Mind
INTERNAL COHESION:
Opportunities to learn and grow personally by
aligning your work with your values and purpose.
TRANSFORMATION:
Opportunities for adventure, and challenges that
allow you to explore and hone your gifts and
talents.
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Motivating the Self-Transforming Mind
SERVICE:
Opportunities to serve others and/or care for the
well-being of the Earth’s life support systems.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
Opportunities to leverage your actions by aligning
with others who share the same values and
purpose.
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SPD and Types of Mind
Integrating: Aligning with others who share the same
values and purpose to create a better world.
Self-actualizing: Becoming more fully who you are by leading a
values- and purpose-driven life.
Individuating: Letting go of the aspects of your parental
and cultural conditioning that no longer serve you.
Self-transforming
Mind
Self-authoring
Mind
Differentiating: Distinguishing yourself from the crowd by
honing your skills and talents.
Conforming: Keeping safe and secure by staying loyal to
your family, kin and culture.
Socialized
Mind
Surviving: Staying alive and healthy in the best
possible conditions.
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Evolution of Personal Consciousness
Serving: Fulfilling your destiny by caring for the
well-being of humanity and/or the planet.
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The Universal Stages of Evolution
From the Big Bang
…
to the Present Day
Evolution
Stage 3:
And as life conditions become even
more complex, group structures
then cooperate with each other to
form a higher order entity.
Stage 2:
As life conditions become more
complex, entities bond with each
other to create viable independent
group structures.
Stage 1:
Entities learn how to become
viable and independent in their
frameworks of existence.
Energy
Atoms
Molecules
Cells
Organisms
Creatures
Homo sapiens
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SPD and Stages of Evolution
Integrating: Aligning with others who share the same
values and purpose to create a better world.
Self-actualizing: Becoming more fully who you are by leading a
values- and purpose-driven life.
Individuating: Letting go of the aspects of your parental
and cultural conditioning that no longer serve you.
Differentiating: Distinguishing yourself from the crowd by
honing your skills and talents.
Conforming: Keeping safe and secure by staying loyal to
your family, kin and culture.
Surviving: Staying alive and healthy in the best
possible conditions.
Cooperating to
form a higher
order entity
Bonding to form
a group structure
Becoming
viable and
independent
in your
framework of
existence
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Evolution of Personal Consciousness
Serving: Fulfilling your destiny by caring for the
well-being of humanity and/or the planet.
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Origins of the Cultural Transformation Tools
Self Actualization
Growth Needs
Know and
Understand
Abraham Maslow
Self-esteem
Love & Belonging
Safety
Physiological
When these needs are fulfilled they do not
go away, they engender deeper levels of
motivation and commitment.
Deficiency Needs
An individual gains no sense
of lasting satisfaction from
being able to meet these
needs, but feels a sense of
anxiety if these needs are not
met.

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What is Cultural Entropy?
The amount of energy that is consumed in an organisation
doing unnecessary or unproductive work that does not
add value.
It is a measure of the conflict, friction and frustration that
employees encounter in their day-to-day activities that
prevent the organisation from operating at peak
performance.
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How Does Cultural Entropy Arise?
Cultural entropy is a function of the personal
entropy of the current leaders of an
organisation and institutional legacy of past
leaders as embedded in the structures,
systems, policies and procedures.
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Highly Engaged Employees
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Highly engaged employees identify with the company.
They care passionately about the future of the company.
They bring passion and purpose to their work.
They are willing to invest their discretionary effort to make
the company a success.
 They want the company to do the right thing.
 They want to feel pride in the way the company behaves.
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What is Personal Entropy?
Personal entropy is the amount of fear-driven
energy that a person expresses in his or her dayto-day interactions with other people.
It is a measure of a lack of a person’s lack of personal
mastery skills. Fear-driven energy arises from the
conscious and subconscious fear-based beliefs of the ego
about meeting its deficiency needs.
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